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    Blog Post

    “Jacket and Tie Required” vs. “No Shirt, No Shoes, No Service”

    Blog Post

    Youth in Crisis: Address Pervasive Sadness

    Social-Emotional Intelligence: 
    Sadness
    Social-Emotional Learning
    Emotion
    Anger
    Fear
    Brain and Nervous System

    Blog Post

    Your Class Calendar as a Meeting Place: Lessons from Stonehenge

    21st Century Skills: 
    Life Skills
    Inquiry Process
    Project-Based Learning
    Initiative
    Leadership
    Questioning
    Planning
    Researching
    Creating

    Minilesson

    Writing: Now how do I get out of this one?

    Assign this prompt to spark students' creativity.

    Mop

    Blog Post

    Writing Workshops: The Only Way to Go

    21st Century Skills: 
    Writing to Learn
    Collaborating

    Blog Post

    Writing to Learn Revisited…Again

    21st Century Skills: 
    Writing to Learn

    Blog Post

    Writing to Celebrate Women's History

    English Language Arts: 
    Writing
    Writing to Learn

    Blog Post

    Writing IS Civilization

    Minilesson

    Writing Freely and Rapidly

    Teach student to freewrite for ideas.

    Illustration of a notebook and pencil

    Minilesson

    Writing Descriptions That "Show" Instead of "Tell"

    Teach students to use sensory details.

    A GROUP OF MEN AND WOMEN, WITH A GUIDE, WHITE WATER RAFTING ON THE PATATE RIVER, ECUADOR

    Minilesson

    Writing Back-and-Forth Stories

    Inspire students to collaborate in writing.

    Creepy old house in the woods

    Blog Post

    Writing and the Global Village

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